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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I can't imagine any gwent deck being better than the north - I guess nilfgaard has higher numbers but fewer abilities. Low level things that need to be paired don't do it for me. Nilfgaard and the North are even imo, because they are both chaulk full of spies and spies are the best cards in the game.
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I can't imagine any gwent deck being better than the north - I guess nilfgaard has higher numbers but fewer abilities. Low level things that need to be paired don't do it for me. I posted a synopsis of Gwent a few pages back, but basically there's 2 ways of building a Gwent deck, full aggro or control. Scoia'tael and Monsters are focused towards pure aggro and Northern/Nilf is more control. Nilf > Northern Monster > Scoia'tael Solartide posted:There are 2 main types of Gwent decks you can build, power and attrition. Solartide posted:Hero cards really aren't that great and I think y'all are overvaluing weather. Solartide fucked around with this message at 00:01 on May 27, 2015 |
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All I want to do is play but life keeps getting in the way, can anyone spoil something early game for me, deals with finding Ciri in Velen and things in a swamp. I let the thing out of the tree, did I just release Tree Hitler?? I just dont like the witches but I wasnt sure which decision was worse so went with gut to free the kids. I love that I am unsure with my decision.
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May 27, 2015 00:00
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Orv posted:Vesimir is pushing 150 I believe. They have said that this is definitively the end of Geralt's story with regards to their games though. If there's a Witcher 4 it won't have him as the protagonist. Wouldn't mind them focusing on Ciri because she's cool, though it might make more sense to just make it take place a bit in the future and have a create-your-own-Witcher thing
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May 27, 2015 00:01
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What exactly cuts off by going to the isle of mists? Is it absolutely everything? Or just plot relevant Sidequests that might have an impact on the ending? Cause I already did all of those as far as I know.
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May 27, 2015 00:01
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Ice Fist posted:Nilfgaard and the North are even imo, because they are both chaulk full of spies and spies are the best cards in the game. Nilfgard spies are tricky, you're giving the adversary a lot of points and need a dope deck to make it reliable.
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:All I want to do is play but life keeps getting in the way, can anyone spoil something early game for me, deals with finding Ciri in Velen and things in a swamp. I went the opposite way and it was pretty grim (and Grimm) - I gather from other posts in the thread that your path is at least as bad if not a worse outcome though. Seriously it's a Witcher game, it's a lot more fun if you overcome the temptation to savescum and accept that actions have unforeseen consequences which range from 'horrible' to 'sweet Melitele's tits WHY' 
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May 27, 2015 00:08
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How the gently caress do I get nekker hearts? I've been slaughtering the drat things but I don't get any hearts.
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May 27, 2015 00:11
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mikeraskol posted:Is it lovely enough that I should reload an old save?
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Wiseblood posted:How the gently caress do I get nekker hearts? I've been slaughtering the drat things but I don't get any hearts. Nekkar nests, I want to say there's an area in Velen with 4 nests clumped together.
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May 27, 2015 00:13
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Wiseblood posted:How the gently caress do I get nekker hearts? I've been slaughtering the drat things but I don't get any hearts. Yeah they're really rare. I built up a total of 4 in the course of my 60 hours playing the game and used them to make a potion last night, and yet I still need 5 for another potion. Maybe they're on a vendor somewhere. My intuition is that looting nekker nests might be the best chance but it's still probably a rare drop, maybe savescum if you've just got to have them?
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May 27, 2015 00:14
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Nakar posted:Why can't I equip a magic sword I just found and have in my hands? What's the point of having a progression curve that, assuming you keep up with your gear, feels more or less flat when fighting the same general things? Why bother fighting something stronger than you are when the loot will be scaled anyway and you'll get nothing better from it than you would've just fighting some bandits? ... Agreed. Hopefully someone mods a fix for it. Maybe puts in merchants to sell all weapons you should get and have the levels set to 1. Or maybe trade you the poo poo version for the one you've earned / deserved. I'm really on the fence about buying this. Ah well.
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May 27, 2015 00:18
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Wiseblood posted:How the gently caress do I get nekker hearts? I've been slaughtering the drat things but I don't get any hearts. Regular Nekkers don't drop them. It's the bigger Nekker Warriors that drop them, and even then at a not a very high chance.
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No Mods No Masters posted:Yeah they're really rare. I built up a total of 4 in the course of my 60 hours playing the game and used them to make a potion last night, and yet I still need 5 for another potion. Maybe they're on a vendor somewhere. My intuition is that looting nekker nests might be the best chance but it's still probably a rare drop, maybe savescum if you've just got to have them? By the way if you don't feel like it's too much of an exploit and can't be bothered to farm a bunch of monster parts, nests will infinitely and near instantly respawn their contents so long as you don't completely loot them. Blow up a nest, look the good stuff, pause a few seconds. Check again.
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So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating.
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FlyingCowOfDoom posted:All I want to do is play but life keeps getting in the way, can anyone spoil something early game for me, deals with finding Ciri in Velen and things in a swamp. I let the thing out of the tree, did I just release Tree Hitler?? I just dont like the witches but I wasnt sure which decision was worse so went with gut to free the kids. I love that I am unsure with my decision. According to a book you find that's the crones' mom who they thought was too crazy and violent, so who knows.
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May 27, 2015 00:22
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Beeez posted:So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating. I like it. I haven't been posting here because I've been too busy playing. My Memorial Day weekend was a complete wash
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May 27, 2015 00:23
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Huh? I'm seeing a lot more "best game ever made 153/10 how can I ever enjoy another game" responses. In the past few pages people have been discussing UI issues that are legit bad, but they do not lower this game to a bad or even mediocre status. It is an excellent game with a few bewildering design decisions.
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May 27, 2015 00:24
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I complain about the UI/inventory/loot stuff more because there's really nothing else for me to complain about with respect to this game. It's pretty incredible and even if those things really really annoy you it's still probably worth buying and playing. Plus on PC some of these things will probably eventually be modded. Modders maybe can't fix the UI but they can likely do a lot to address other things.
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May 27, 2015 00:26
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The UI issues get a lot of (deserved) flak in this thread mostly because they take you out of the actual game, which is amazingly good. If you can endure a clunky console-centric UI and you like fantasy RPGs I think you'd be hard pressed not to like this game.
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Psiharis posted:Huh? I'm seeing a lot more "best game ever made 153/10 how can I ever enjoy another game" responses. In the past few pages people have been discussing UI issues that are legit bad, but they do not lower this game to a bad or even mediocre status. It is an excellent game with a few bewildering design decisions. I won't get a chance to play it 'til probably July, but I periodically come in here to see what people are talking about and I guess I just happen to come in here at times where people are talking about the bad points, because it seems like every time I come in here I see complaints about the combat, glitches, the inventory, alchemy, leveling, or the skill tree. Edit: And I'll be playing this on PS4, I don't have a PC that's good enough to play this.
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Beeez posted:So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating. It's extremely loving good. Way better than Inquisition, imo. The world-building especially is fantastic, plot and writing good to top-notch. It's a visually beautiful and enormous game where you can sink many tens of hours into exploration and doing numerous side quests for terrified peasant dirt farmers without it feeling grindy at all. The combat I think is alright, with some janky elements which I can see frustrating some of the posters here. The worst aspects are probably the inventory and item management which needs a lot more sorting options and quality of life improvements, plus probably some tweaks to loot scaling. Someone put it well when they said this game is 95% awesome and 5% terribly obnoxious poo poo which doesn't much diminish the overall product. I'd bet most of the major flaws (inventory UI and maybe some of the combat, movement, and targeting awkwardness) will be patched or modded pretty quickly.
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Nakar posted:I complain about the UI/inventory/loot stuff more because there's really nothing else for me to complain about with respect to this game. It's pretty incredible and even if those things really really annoy you it's still probably worth buying and playing. You can like games and still talk about things that are really bad and annoying in them
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Beeez posted:I won't get a chance to play it 'til probably July, but I periodically come in here to see what people are talking about and I guess I just happen to come in here at times where people are talking about the bad points, because it seems like every time I come in here I see complaints about the combat, glitches, the inventory, alchemy, leveling, or the skill tree. It's the something awful forums, people are going to mostly complain about the given topic. Luckily if you're not playing until July you'll probably be able to benefit from a pretty good suite of patches (and mods if you're on PC) to smooth over rough spots.
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Zaggitz posted:What exactly cuts off by going to the isle of mists? Is it absolutely everything? Or just plot relevant Sidequests that might have an impact on the ending? Cause I already did all of those as far as I know. Beeez posted:So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating.
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Most of what I want to discuss about how much I love the game is potentially spoilery. I've been banking a ton of screenshots/videos that made me laugh out loud but hold off on posting most things like that because part of the joy is being blindsided by a hilarious moment in the middle of grimdark peasant misery. Basically there is nothing so problematic in this game that it cannot be solved by bumping down a level of difficulty and ignoring it. I'm at a point where I don't really rely on consumables except for my perma-quickslotted potions and bombs, and I'm playing on the 2nd-hardest difficulty, so the inventory travails are fairly optional if they interfere with someone's enjoyment that much. I'm at a point where I'm happy when the game crashes (only twice so far, and I've finished all but some optional crap in Novigrad and started in on Skellige) because without that as a built-in stopping point, I would get absolutely nothing else done. And I just don't get excited about games anymore. This is something special.
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Beeez posted:Edit: And I'll be playing this on PS4, I don't have a PC that's good enough to play this. One thing is the CPU requirements for the game were grossly overstated, and the GPU requirements were probably also set a little higher than are actually sufficient. I would strongly recommend going PC because mods will probably make the game even better and the PC also gets patches much faster than the PS4 does.
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It's like I put it before: CDPR makes amazing games, that have janky interfaces. Every single Witcher game has had questionable elements to their UI, inventory especially so. W2 got an overhaul with the EE, and I expect them to do the same here. The game is loving amazing, atmospheric, and just impressive on every level otherwise. The combat is a bit iffy, but once you get used to the flow and get some talent points in you'll be carving and roasting your way through. But it's a semi-open world, so with any game of that sort it'll have a bunch of bugs. Most are not game-breaking, just annoying. It's also a game that rides the bleeding edge of what video cards can do, so tweaks are being found and made to make it more forgiving for existing cards. Most of the video-related crashes are patched (I think). But that inventory system...there's really nothing redeeming about it.
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Nakar posted:You might be surprised, I thought my rig was poo poo but it's more than competent to run the game at settings that are equal to or better than the PS4's at framerates superior to the locked 30fps of consoles. I'm not getting 60 constantly but it's plenty. No, believe me, I just have a laptop that isn't really kitted out for games at all. I mostly grew up playing console games so I know jack squat about how to have a good gaming PC. It is too bad to miss out on mods, but oh well.
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So for Jenny O The Woods Is she just completely broken? I'm level 12 and she annihilates me more than any other fight I've come across. Yeah yeah you read about what you're "supposed" to do to defeat her but it really doesn't work, so what's the trick? I've tried looking up guides online and most come down to "this fight is bullshit and I got lucky after trying for a million times"
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Beeez posted:So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating. The game is great. And totally worth every cent, and I´ve been playing obsessively since launch. The thing is, when they get it right it´s downright amazing but when they don´t they really gently caress it up big time. Also, in a game as long as this one, with time it gets really hard to overlook some of the most bizarre design choices or mistakes. And they are plenty and pretty often of the "I can´t believe someone really play-tested this for more than 15 minutes and haven´t noticed this bullshit". The thing is, for me so far - I´m 40 hours in - the good still completely outshines the bad. But I´m only able to stop playing long enough to post when I´m in rage quit mode, so my post are usually negative.
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lilspooky posted:So for Jenny O The Woods Is she just completely broken? I'm level 12 and she annihilates me more than any other fight I've come across. Yeah yeah you read about what you're "supposed" to do to defeat her but it really doesn't work, so what's the trick? I've tried looking up guides online and most come down to "this fight is bullshit and I got lucky after trying for a million times" Cast Yrden, get maybe 2-3 hits while she is inside the circle, then back up to make sure you are still inside the circle. I'm assuming you don't have any helpful alchemy, so do that.
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lilspooky posted:So for Jenny O The Woods Is she just completely broken? I'm level 12 and she annihilates me more than any other fight I've come across. Yeah yeah you read about what you're "supposed" to do to defeat her but it really doesn't work, so what's the trick? I've tried looking up guides online and most come down to "this fight is bullshit and I got lucky after trying for a million times" When she splits, run away. She will merge back together without healing anything.
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I was around your level and it wasn't bad on BB&B difficulty. Lay down your Yrden and INSIST that she come in there to get to you. Use moon dust bombs. If she's transparent and teleporting around, you are doing it wrong. With a halfway decent sword, her clones don't last more than a hit or two. I may have cat gear at the time which is what, L13? Trivializes most things under L20.
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She hits absurdly hard so don't get greedy, abuse Yrden while keeping Quen up, and try not to let her regenerate too much. Also I think she can be hit with gradual damage status effects which helps a little, but ghosts are immune to poison I think.
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Beeez posted:So is this game a big disappointment or are goons just accentuating the negative? The way some of y'all are talking, it sounds like every mechanic is tedious and frustrating. The game is a lot of fun, and the stories in a lot of the quests are really good. The characters are generally all pretty interesting, and the game is gorgeous. It's just a lot of the positives of the game require spoilers to talk about, cause some of the best stuff is story related. It's easier to bitch about the problems in the game, especially when it's an otherwise good game. The inventory system sucks, having to repair and having to deal with weight sucks. Geralt's movement sucks, though I don't think everyone is in agreement with that. There's problems with the PC version and even with the patches it'll still crash. It's still very good.
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lilspooky posted:So for Jenny O The Woods Is she just completely broken? I'm level 12 and she annihilates me more than any other fight I've come across. Yeah yeah you read about what you're "supposed" to do to defeat her but it really doesn't work, so what's the trick? I've tried looking up guides online and most come down to "this fight is bullshit and I got lucky after trying for a million times" This contract was especially painful and I was at 15.
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